April 11, 2013 toApril 28, 2013

BERTIE & JEEVES ARE BACK IN A NEW COMIC
ADVENTURE!
The lovably loopy Bertie Wooster always manages to get into
socially precarious situations. This time around he finds himself
dodging romantic entanglements with a starry-eyed young woman,
eluding an enraged chef wielding a meat cleaver, and begrudgingly
helping his Aunt Dahlia to commit a burglary. Thank heaven
Jeeves is there to save the day! Based on the characters created by
British author P.G. Wodehouse and written by Margaret Raether, who
brought us our 2010 hit, JEEVES INTERVENES.Matt Daniels returns to reprise the role of Jeeves!

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Comedy of Manners

Friday, April 19, 2013

by Russ Bickerstaff, Shepherd Express; With Jeeves in Bloom, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre renders another compelling illustration of why P.G. Wodehouse's beloved characters Jeeves and Wooster continue to hold a distinctive appeal nearly a century after they first appeared on the printed page. Director Tami Workentin balances a rather intricately light comedic script on the shoulders of a talented cast.

Julie McHale, Waukesha Freeman/GM Today; Farces are fun, especially those tinged with Brit wit. Playwright Margaret Raether is obviously of like mind as she has already transformed three of P.G. Wodehouse’s short stories into farcical comedies, and all three are delighting audiences in many American cities, including Milwaukee.

by Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Mag.com; There’s also a battle between chaos and order in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of Jeeves in Bloom, Margaret Raether’s play drawn from several of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories.

by Peggy Sue Dunigan, Postscript Performing Arts; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre welcomes spring to the Cabot Stage at the Broadway Theatre Center with their current production of the wild and witty Jeeves In Bloom. Margaret Raether’s delightful adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse’s stories winks at British society with marvelous charm. Stories where the boyishly brash Bertie Wooster survives only by advice given through his impeccable butler Jeeves.

by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Given the miserable spring we've been having, I probably don't need to explain the appeal of a play titled "Jeeves in Bloom," the second of Margaret Raether's three stage adaptations of the P.G. Wodehouse stories and novels featuring Bertie Wooster's ever-capable valet.

by Matthew Reddin, Third Coast Daily; Thank heavens, Jeeves is back! Jeeves in Bloom, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s season closer, is the spiritual sequel to Jeeves Intervenes, another treatment of P.G. Wodehouse’s stories about a brilliant valet who gets his master, Bertie Wooster, out of innumerable scrapes. MCT staged the first Margaret Raether adaptation in 2010, and has brought back director Tami Workentin and Matt Daniels as Jeeves in an attempt to recreate the splendor of that previous production.

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Matt Daniels re-ups as Jeeves for MCT

Thursday, April 11, 2013

by Matthew Reddin, Third Coast Daily; It’s understandable that an actor might have the opportunity to play a certain role more than once in their career. But to play the same character in multiple plays – especially given the relatively small number of plays which feature overlapping characters – is much less likely.

Wit. Fun. Delight. All attractive rewards for diving into Wodehouse’s fictional England, a world of rich young gentlemen, their servants, friends, fiancées, and quirky family; of country houses, French chefs, and telegrams from London. But what, beyond the glitter, makes this work last? What keeps readers returning to Wodehouse?